July Newsletter

Summer means that there is not too much to share this month, but we are still going to hit you with a newsletter as always. Please read ahead to get all of the interesting information and find out all of the things happening around the site this month!

Let’s get started!

I. July Birthdays
II. July Events
III. July Free App Group & Needs/Bans
IV. Face Off
V. Activity Check
VI. Gringotts Lottery
VII. Housekeeping & Reminders



1st → Artunakara Buchanan
1st → @shelby
5th → @kate
7th → @dima
8th → @melanie
8th → @mona
8th → @tessa
12th → Demelza Robins
13th → Kingsley Shacklebolt
18th → Demeter Keola Hitchens
19th → @lyra
19th → Samira Avani Chaudhari
22nd → @degdeg
23rd → @walker
27th → Beckett Archibald Graves
29th → @graham
30th → Donald Leonardo Westwood
31st → @harry

We also have two member birthdays this month! Tyra on the 7th, and Tori on the 8th!



League Schedule
7 July - Week 8 Matches
14 July - Week 9 Matches
21 July - Week 10 Matches
28 July - Week 11 Matches

Keep up with the full league schedule and how your team is fairing by GOING HERE!



As always, you can check the page yourself to keep updated on our needs/bans, as well as our free app group, RIGHT HERE. But I still want to make sure that you’re all always aware of it here too! So, for the month of June, our needs are:

• Hogwarts Students Years 1-4
• Hospital Employees
  
• Braithwaite Students and Staff

This is the same as last month, because that's just what we still need! Didn't see much of a reason to change it!

We do officially have a group in the danger category, which I have never really utilized before! If you remember, the danger group is a group that is not currently banned, but is on the watch list, of sorts, and might be banned if we get too many more people of that group!

And that group would be 7th Year Female Students! Currently we have an overwhelming amount — yes with some NPCs as well, but still enough for the group to be in danger!

We are officially back under a pureblood ban. Our numbers have skyrocketed up to upwards of 50%. The former rules apply. If your percent of purebloods is over 30%, you may not make any while the ban is in place. If you have a percent lower than 30%, you can still make them. But do so with caution, please! If you continue to make purebloods, that will just keep the ban in place longer! Take a good look at your characters, decide if they need to be a pureblood, decide if they can wait — all of that will help us to get this ban removed as soon as possible! If you have the account made by the time this newsletter, you can still make them. But no new accounts will be accepted if you have a percent above 30%!

And now onto our free app group. If you recall, you can only participate in a free app group of the month if you have not deleted three or more characters in the past two months. You can also not participate on an absence!

Our free app group for July is going to be Muggleborns! The registration is over, and we need to get our Muggleborn numbers up and our pureblood numbers down!



For those of you that have not already signed up, what on earth are you waiting for?! It's one again time to Face Off, which is a personal favorite of mine because you pick your partner and you pick your rules! Whatever you want to do becomes the challenge for the month! Winners get sickles and a pretty banner on their profiles, and also bragging rights, so really, what are you waiting for. If you are reading this right now, please go to Gringotts and type in the word: blatherskite to get five sickles. Let's see who actually reads these, shall we? Find someone to face off against and get going!

To sign up for Face Off, GO HERE AND DO IT ALREADY!



As you all know, we are doing something of an experiment this summer! Recently, we had a lot of people telling us that our Activity requirements for characters were more stressful than anything else, and this is supposed to be fun! So, obviously, if you are stressed out, you are not having fun, and that has meant us trying to figure out how to restructure to make sure we are not stressing anyone else, but also not giving anyone a free-for-all to have characters that they are not even using.

That has meant no AR and no Purgatory, which is great and fun. But this month, we are officially trying out our new Activity Check! Make sure that you post here by the end of the month and read the rules carefully to make sure that you are doing it right!! You can go RIGHT HERE to do that!



The winners of our latest Gringotts lottery must officially be announced!

Our first prize winner, and the recipient of 50 galleons is: Mya!
The second prize winner and recipient of 35 galleons is: Tori!
And our third prize winner and recipient of 15 galleons is: Joyce!



Just a couple of quick, quick reminders before we close this down!

• It's time for July nominations for our monthly awards! You have until the 20th, as always! So get going, please! Go here!
• In case you missed it, the yearbook has been posted. If you haven't already checked it out, DO SO HERE! Tori worked very hard on it!

That’s all, folks!